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12/2022 - PresentAdHocSenior UX Designer, People Operations
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05/2022 - 12/2022AllCampusSenior Digital Designer
Developed a variety of assets to support existing clients and onboarding new clients. Created Wireframes, prototypes and conceptualized design ideas. Engaged in collaborative critiquing of design work and brainstorming solutions. Worked across a number of teams and stakeholders that included SEO, Content, Developers, Partnership Relations and Leadership. Utilized data such as heatmaps, scroll maps, funnels and recordings to make meaningful insights about visitor behavior.
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04/2022 - 05/2022Cornell UniversitySenior Web Designer
Lead UI/UX Designer and front-end developer to bring a new dimension of creative sophistication to the university's central web properties.
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01/2021 - 04/2022University of Michigan | School of NursingSenior Web Designer
Take existing and new content on the School of Nursing website and enhance the visual appeal with images, graphics, and layout. Serve as part of the web design team designing and building pages/sites and providing custom design work, as needed. Create web pages that engage users and provide a positive user experience. Design visual website imagery, ensuring that they are in line with UMSN’s branding. Maintain the appearance of website by enforcing content, brand and style standards.
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04/2018 - 01/2021University of Michigan | Michigan CreativeSenior Web Designer
Primary designer for all web projects. Additionally, I build many of the sites I've designed. My role includes mentoring and guiding junior designers, advocating for accessibility, practicing kind and inclusive design, and communicating best practices for the web to all of our campus partners.
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02/2015 - 04/2018University of Michigan | College of EngineeringDigital Design Lead/Senior Web Designer
Participated in and executed the College of Engineering brand refresh, designed and built the front end for a new News Center, events site, and five department themes, designed and retrofitted engin.umich.edu to be responsive, design and built fully responsive emails for the college and six departments.
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01/2006 - 02/2015Bonnier CorporationDigital Art Director
Responsible for Bonnier Motocycle Group digital properties, Photography group, redesigned and worked with front end developers for UX/UI tweaks and enhancements. Lead designer for the Outdoor Group’s long form editorial features. I was also sent to work in Vilinius, Lithuania for a business daily newspaper in their web department for 3 months.
Work Experience
Expertise
Along with traditional print and digital design, I am a front end developer with experience using VueJS, React, a number of static site generators such as Hugo and 11ty, and with Jamstack in general. I also build out custom CMSes using a headless CMS called Netlify CMS and make custom Wordpress themes with custom React components for Gutenberg. I've built a custom Drupal theme that was more fun that I originally thought! I strive to write accessible and semantic HTML and CSS. While I have extensive experience with SASS, I find myself lately using vanilla CSS with PostCSS and a utility-first CSS philosophy. I do still love SASS. My use of javascript is mainly presentational but have been doing more with Firebase lately which requires some heavy javascripting to create and interact with objects.